In order to prevent the severe threat from becoming a reality, Mrs May questioned the authorities ability to monitor online communications and has asked schools, universities and councils to help prevent online radicalisation; those previously radicalised by Islamic State, ‘weren’t previously on [the] radar’, thus posing an inevitable threat to the UK.

Internet service providers will be obliged to retain IP addresses for each individual user. May also proposed to target insurance firms who pay these ‘barbaric groups’ a ransom.

But these proposals have already received some criticism from human rights groups, and have been seen as ‘a recipe for injustice’. Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: ‘Yet again politicians resort to high talk and rushed legislation in an attempt to look tough in the face of terrorism’.